posted 5 years ago
Hey J.
It depends largely on how you're burning the wood. If your system isn't going to smoke back inside your house, I'd say you're probably fine. If your system might have draught and draw issues until it gets going, I would advise starting with something else.
If you're burning out in the open, outside, I would stay out of the path of the smoke.
Realistically, I would expect the concentrations of the effective essential oils in the poison ivy root hairs to be fairly low, though. The itching is the plant's defense mechanism against being eaten, and I think that it's mostly concentrated in the leaves. At least, any time I've observed the plant, it's the leaves that have the shiny coating, and not so much the rest of the plant.
But not knowing for sure, and not wanting to necessarily do a skin test (which you could do, but maybe use someone else? jk), I would err on the side of caution.
But let us know how it goes, and good luck!
-CK
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
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